This week’s events include an advance screening of The Fall Guy, an event on the seventy-five year-long history of the Indian Constitution, and a Comparative & International Law Workshop.

Happy last full week of October! This week’s events include a panel discussion moderated by Professor Hillary Clinton, an ethnography of Russia, and a workshop on Allyship & Intersectionality.

Tao Tan speculates on why Columbia might not be as special as it thinks: It’s amazing that the Greene Foundation would pony up $200M. Last year’s IRS 990 reflected $80M in assets (pdf): If I had to guess, my guess would be that this is the Greene Foundation’s close-to-last hurrah. There’s been a philanthropic philosophy […]

According to an email from Lee C.– and we trust him on these things– Dawn Greene just gave Columbia “the largest gift ever received by any U.S. university for the development of a single facility.” The single facility being the Jerome L. Greene Science Center dedicated to poking at the brain and stuff. For those […]